The exercises used are based on a testing database. You will need to adjust your values of your entries (when applicable) to accommodate the data in your database. Results displayed will differ than those in the exercises.
Distributed Reports can be a handy Visualizer. Reports sent to a team can be placed on the Dashboard and accessed from a remote location. To add a Distributed Reports Visualizer to a Dashboard, perform the following:
- Select the appropriate Visualizer with the left mouse click and drag it to the desired location on the Display Grid. You will see a small plus sign next to your cursor when dragging the Visualizer. For this example, the first Visualizer is Distributed Reports.
-
The Visualizer will appear with sizing squares. The sizing squares allow you to adjust the size of the Visualizer. Select the square and drag to the appropriate size.
The center sizing square is used to move the entire Visualizer around on the Designer Grid. The cursor will turn to a 4-way arrow.
- After you have the Visualizer in the appropriate location, you can utilize the Properties area to make changes to the Distributed Reports. You can make changes to the following:
- As Of - Today, This Week, Last Week, This Month, Last Month, All
- Initially Expanded - This feature can be toggled between True (Expanded) and False (Not Expanded).
- Title - Enter an appropriate Title for the Distributed Report. The Title will show up above the Distributed Report as a heading. For this example, we will leave the default title.
- Wrap with Border - This feature allows you to toggle between True (The chart will wrap with the border) and False (the chart will NOT wrap with the border.)
- If you are happy with each of the Property settings, click the Save button on the Dashboard tool ribbon.
- Click the Preview Button to view the results of the setup.
-
Click on the View Report link to launch the report.